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Re: Help I've deleted everything unde /var/cache/apt



On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 05:39:36PM +0100, Pat Colbeck wrote:
> I diodn't intend to delete the thing in the first place ! I was
> playing with apt-proxy and got interupted by someone and did an rm -Rf
> in the wrong console.
> 
> Never mind I know someone who did that in the root directory of the
> main Dec Alpha for a reasonably large company.

/var/cache, of course, is deletable by its very nature. I think it's a
bug in apt that it doesn't automatically recreate
/var/cache/apt/archives and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial for you.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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